OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF ENLIGHTENMENT

30. XII. 1918

I request that you receive the bearer, Comrade Prokofiev. His request to requisition Surkov's library for a district of 40,000 people is, in my view, correct; perhaps certain rights of use could be retained by Surkov? I request that you send me a copy of your resolution on this question, and I also request that you help the comrades from Rodniki in expanding their library. Could one of the requisitioned landlord libraries be sent to them? Please inform me about this as well.250

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945

in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript